Titian and Trotsky perhaps inspire my memories (7)
I believe the answer is:
records
'memories' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'titian and trotsky perhaps inspire my' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'my' could be 'cor' (both are expressions of surprise) and 'cor' is present in the answer.
'titian' could be 'red' (Titian can mean a red colour) and 'red' is located in the remaining letters.
A single letter 's' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for records that I've seen before include "The best (or worst) performances ever" , "Annotations of events" , "Archives" , "Sets down in writing or preserves in sound" , "Discs" .)